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Slow war /
"Writing in the tradition of John McCrae's "In Flanders Fields," Wilfred Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est," and Kevin Powers's "Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting," Benjamin Hertwig's debut collection of poetry, Slow War, is at once an ac...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
2017.
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| Colección: | Hugh MacLennan poetry series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- genesis
- first kill
- bush trails
- weekend leave, Wainright to Edmonton
- drunk-driving
- emergent
- night convoy, Kandahar
- rumours, forward operating base Wilson
- guard tower, Kandahar
- ash wednesday, freedom chapel Kandahar
- salat
- first shot
- somewhere in Helmand
- three weeks' leave, Germany
- rooftop, Panjwai
- somewhere in the desert
- evening at a burnt-out school with the tenth mountain division
- skoal
- easter sunday, forward operating base Wilson
- fruit on a wooden table
- a visit from the prime minister
- care package, Kandahar
- homeward
- iconoclast
- food habits of coyotes, as determined by examination of stomach contents
- tinnitus, or the drive-thru window when you return
- vehicle in flame
- young soldier
- young boy
- home again
- apple-picking, after Afghanistan
- winter buck
- alternate
- desire in sevens
- a compendium of hands
- july 22, 2006
- portrait of a family friend in your bedroom, signed camp Hallein (21/10/45)
- May 2, 2011
- the liturgical leap into monday, or some of the things you wish you'd told your grandfather
- rock picking
- road race, christmas day
- church going
- poem for the dead after war
- poem for the last time you wore your uniform
- Otto after the war
- somewhere in Flanders/Afghanistan
- stigmata
- for the soldier who slept across the hall
- on teaching Tim O'Brien to an amateur hockey team
- visiting the old farm, Alberta
- stories you tell when you wish to love again
- view from a slide you once slept under
- sunday mornings
- remember your body again
- quiet
- a poem is not Guantánamo Bay
- exodus
- Acknowledgments.